Arduino and Open source hardware introduced the amazing world of electronics to wide range of creative people. But what is the situation 6 years after the launch of the project? Loads of tutorials and thousands threads in the forums. How to orientate? How to build simple things? How not to pay so much money for one purpose Arduino shields to make multipurpose stable device?
We try to answer these questions with Standuino! We developed the Standuino board according the legacy of our region – the Czech republic – where getting electronic parts is easy and cheap and where the knowledge doesn’t lay on the internet, but in our fathers and in their magazines.
With the help of all of this we extracted that basic circuits that usually creative people need to make their projects. We were already commissioned by many artists to make simple things. Turning on and off lights or devices, movement with motors, connecting simple sensors, sound playback and so on. This area is being known as physical computing in the western world. From our experience it is really unstable to build stable devices on Arduino and breadboards without soldering.
You will learn:
-how to solder
-understanding of basic electronic parts
-how to make different things – in printed brochure participants will find basic circuits and will understand how to make them work
-motor control, AC switching, simple sensors, lights, basic interface (buttons, pots)
-how to program – we will introduce the basics of open source programming that will make the things talk to each other
-you will build your own Standuino with functionality you need and you take it home
Please bring your ideas of what you would like to make within the area of electronics and we will try to adapt it to what is possible to build within the one day or we will make suggestions what to make further.
Standuino is the inovative force in hand-made electronic musicand open source hardware as well as theoretically and historically driven movement that results in artworks, bands, workshops, happenings and writings.
Standuino started as a clone board of popular Arduino but adapted to radical DIY approachof eastern region (=bastl). With this powerful tool it became part of many art installations and enabled our research team to build prototypes of many different devices most importantly musical instruments.
The whole concept of Standuino is inspired and covered by the story of a pioneer of media art– Standa Filip. The name Standuino goes mainly from Standas name but also stands for what Standuino is best at – the standalone applications.
organised by:
AltArt Foundation, www.altart.org
Remake (www.remakeme.eu)
mediaLab 4AM ( www.forum4am.cz )
Graukllktv o.s. ( www.graukllktv.eu )
